Pictures: New Horizons' Pluto flyby

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NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. The image resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft captured this high-resolution enhanced color view of Pluto on July 14, 2015. The image combines blue, red and infrared images taken by the Ralph/Multispectral Visual Imaging Camera (MVIC). Pluto’s surface sports a remarkable range of subtle colors, enhanced in this view to a rainbow of pale blues, yellows, oranges, and deep reds. The image resolves details and colors on scales as small as 0.8 miles.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was obtained with the sun on the other side of Pluto, as viewed by New Horizons.

NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft took this image of Pluto only a few minutes after closest approach on July 14, 2015. The image was obtained with the sun on the other side of Pluto, as viewed by New Horizons.

In mankind's first close-up look at Pluto, pictures from NASA's New Horizons probe showed ice mountains on Pluto about as high as the Rockies and chasms on its big moon Charon that appear six times deeper than the Grand Canyon.